Author Archives: Bill Nation

British Columbia has sent seven provincial firefighters to Australia. In all, 22 Canadians will help battle wildfires down under. Forests Minister Doug Donaldson says the Australian government asked t...

Premier John Horgan says a number of factors have conspired against large cannabis profits for the province in the first year since recreational marijuana was legalized. Horgan says the illegal market...

The province has announced the largest single investment so far in a program to bring high-speed services to rural, remote and Indigenous communities. The parliamentary secretary for rural development...

Courtenay-Alberni MP Gord Johns was appointed critic for fisheries and oceans by NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. He was also designated as the critic for small business, tourism and economic development, as...

The Comox Valley RCMP has been working to grab the attention of drivers as they pass through school zones by handing out drawings done by local children. The "Think of Me" campaign is a partnership be...

The Canadian military's Snowbirds aerobatic team is returning home after a crash grounded the planes in the U.S. for more than a month. Military investigators are still trying to determine why one of ...

A tentative contract agreement has been reached in Vancouver to avert a massive transit strike in Canada's third-biggest city. The union representing five-thousand Metro Vancouver transit workers reac...

Finance Minister Carole James says B-C is well prepared to weather global uncertainty being caused by escalating trade tensions. James says second quarter financial results released today confirm the ...

A new BC Hydro report finds despite experiencing the most damaging winter storm in BC Hydro's history last year, many British Columbians remain unprepared for storm-related power outages. The report e...

On November 19, 2019 at approximately 1:25 p.m. Comox Valley RCMP Frontline officers responded to a report of an assault that had just occurred on the 350-block of 6th Street in Courtenay. When office...